T.K. Thorne

To save her partner, Rose kills a man, but no one is going to believe her. . . .

Rookie patrol o cer Rose Brighton chases a suspect down an alley. Without warning, her vision wavers, and the lone suspect appears to divide into two men—the real suspect, frozen in time, and a shadow version with a gun. Confused by what she’s just seen, but with no time to second guess it’s meaning, Rose shoots the real suspect in the back.

Forced to lie to detectives, she risks her job and her life to discover the shocking truth of who she really is—a witch of an ancient House, the prey of one powerful enemy, and the pawn of another.

House of Rose, set in the Deep South city of Birmingham, Alabama, is the rst book of the Magic City Stories.

T.K. Thorne, a retired Birmingham, Alabama police captain, has written two award- winning historical novels, Noah’s Wife and Angels at the Gate, lling in the untold backstories of extraordinary, yet unnamed women—the wives of Noah and Lot—in two of the world’s most famous sagas. The New York Post’s “Books You Should Be

Reading” list featured her rst non- ction book, Last Chance For Justice, which details the investigators’ behind-the-scenes stories of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing case. She loves traveling and speaking about her books and life lessons. T.K. writes at her mountaintop home near Birmingham, Alabama, often with two dogs and a cat vying for her lap.